September 3, 2025 • 9 mins
A teenage boy will front court in Queensland this morning after allegedly stabbing a female Uber driver on the Gold Coast.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he's prepared to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss a deal to end the war if he comes to Moscow.
The debate on the burning of our national flag is intensifying with Liberal Senator Jactina Nampijinpa Price calling on politicians to criminalise it.
7NEWS Headlines with Edwina Bartholomew September 04, 2025.
For more news, head to www.7news.com.au
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning. A teenage boy will front court in Queensland
this morning after allegedly stabbing a female uber driver on
the Gold Coast. The thirty two year old woman was
found with multiple stab wounds to her head, neck and
back outside the Kumera Westfield shopping center. The woman remains
fighting for life this morning after she was rushed to
hospital in a critical condition.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The investigations so far show that there wasn't any type
of disagreement about the ride share or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The sixteen year old has been charged with acts intended
to cause grievous bodily harm, armed robbery and deprivation of liberty.
Police have rammed up the search for gunman responsible for
a brazen daylight shooting in Cities South earlier this year.
The victims, with links to the Alamedine crime family are
refusing to cooperate with police.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It is always refrustrating when people don't co op rate
with these investigations.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Police have also charged prominent associate lawyer Sylvan Singh for
allegedly ordering a violent kidnapping. City's Harbor Bridge could soon
be the site of more protests, with an anti corruption
group applying to police to march across the landmark on
September thirteen. The affairs the unprecedented Supreme Court ruling that
allowed a ninety thousand strong pro Palestine protest in August
(01:26):
has opened the floodgates of future similar events in his
South Wales Police minister says continuing protests are leaving police
exhausted and overworked. Victorian police have called specialist units from
the army to help track down police killer Desi Freeman.
It comes as the search for the government enters its
tenth day after he fled to the Victorian Bush. We're
(01:49):
also joined by assets from the Australian Defense COOTS.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Everyone is leaning.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Into the search, police have said his wife if Mahley,
could face charges over obstructing offices from Minister. Anthony ALBERNIZI
is facing mounting questions over the attendants of former Victorian
Premier Daniel Andrews a China's military parade. The opposition and
prominent labor figures branded Dan Andrews as a traitor after
(02:17):
mingling and shaking hands with authoritarian leaders in Beijing. The
PM refusing to comment on mister Andrews's attendants in parliament,
instead pointing to the Abbott government's decision to send its
veterans affairs ministers to the same anniversary ten years ago.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he's prepared to meet his
Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelenski to discuss a deal to end
(02:41):
the war if he comes to Moscow. Like the York
corosspondent Ben Dwanni Ben, how likely is this to happen,
as Ukraine responded.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, Eddie, effectively a non starter. There is no way
this could be feasibly possible purely from a security standpoint,
let alone all of the other hurdles. Ukraine has responded.
Its foreign minus has said that Russia says or knows
that this is knowingly unacceptable, effectively an offer they know
Ukraine won't be able to meet now. It would be
extraordinarily unlikely anyway. But in addition to the offer, Vladimir
(03:14):
Putin has also delivered an ultimatum that either Ukraine does
a deal with Moscow to end the war, likely on
Russia's terms, or Russia will achieve all its objectives in
the war by force. Putin's invitation is seemingly in response
to the two week deadline Donald Trump gave him at
the Alaskan summit to agree to talks with Lenski. This
(03:35):
is effectively the shape that Putin wants them to take,
and that deadline on Friday is fast approaching. Here was
the US President.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I have no message to President, Buten he knows where
I stand, and he'll make a decision one way or
the other. Whatever his decision is, will either be happy
about it or unhappy. And if we're unhappy about it,
you'll see things happen. I'll be speaking to him over
the next few days and we're going to see.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
The backdrop to this. Of course, sadly is another Russian attack,
this time on the Ukrainian front line town of Koshniska,
that killed at least nine people, with the death tolls
still being assessed. It seems as long as these peace
talks keep getting drawn out, more people pay with their lives.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Addie certainly do, thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
A Western City family had a root awakening last night
when a car plowed through their yard, narrowly missing their door.
Emergency services were called to the scene at Saint John
Park just before ten point thirty pm to find a
white Mazda and Honda had collided causing the Mazda to
mount the curb. Both drivers, age in their twenties, return
negative breath tests and nobody was hurt. Fresh data has
(04:44):
revealed more women have been killed by someone they know
in Queensland than anywhere else in the country. Let us
report from the Australian Bureau Statistics also reveals the number
of sexual assaults has jumped again. It cements Queensland as
the crime cap bittle of the country for the second
year in a row. The state government says the numbers
(05:04):
show that so much more needs to be done. Mushroom
murderer Aaron Patterson is set to make Australian history next week,
with the Supreme Court allowing a TV camera in to
record and broadcast her sentencing for triple murder. You can
watch just As Beale deliver the penalty for the fifty
year old crimes at nine point thirty on Monday morning.
(05:25):
The historic sentencing will be live streamed across all of
seven's social media platforms, and of course will bring you
it also here on Channel seven. The debate on the
burning of our national flag is intensifying, with Liberal Senator
just Into Napajema Price calling on politicians to criminalize it.
Josh Martin has been covering the debate in Canberra for
(05:47):
US and Josh. Tensions really reached boiling point in Parliament
yesterday morning, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
They did the Liberal Senator as well as One Nation
leader Pauline Hanson, both defying the rules of Parliament, standing
up in making speeches while covering themselves in the Australian
national flag napin jibber. Price and Hansen were both told
to take the flags off as props aren't allowed in
the Senate. That's a long running rule. But one of
the messages they are trying to convey is that the
(06:14):
burning of the flag should be made illegal. We saw
the flag burnt in recent rallies over Gaza and immigration,
thrusting the issue into the spotlight. Here's some of the
drama from Parliament yesterday.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I asked for a ruling please on whether the senator
is who's wrapped in the national flag at the moment,
is controverting the standing order that prevents props.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
The burning of our national flag goes beyond free speech
and political protests. It's an abuse of liberty. It's a
rejection of the responsible citizenship it's a display of historical ignorance.
It's an act intended to side division, disunity, national hatred
and even violence.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Annie Labour's Attorney General, Michelle Roland, has also condemned the
burning of the flag, but as of yet there are
no plans to make it illegal.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Thank you, Josh. Hundreds of convicted criminals are set to
live freely in Naharu, with taxpayers footing a seven million
dollar bill per person to deport them to the Pacific nation.
The Department of Home Affairs has confirmed the arrangement could
cost Australia two point five billion dollars over thirty years.
(07:24):
Nahru will resettle up to three hundred and fifty four
former immigration detainees at an initial cost of four hundred
and eight million dollars and seventy million dollars every year thereafter.
Following the deal struck last week, there are mounting questions
this morning around how a city grandfather was able to
mistakenly take the wrong child home from a childcare center
(07:47):
in the city South. The boy's mother arrived at the
First Steps Learning Academy to find her son wasn't there.
The boy apparently looked like the grandfather's grandson he is stated,
of course about his mistake, and the educator who gave
him the wrong child has been stood down. The center
is taking measures to make sure it can't happen again,
(08:09):
with the regulator now investigating well. Footy fever has taken
hold of Adelaide as the Crow's face off against Collingwood
in tonight's qualifying final. Adelaide Oval is sold out. Over
fifty three thousand footy fans set to attend. The Crows
have returned to the finals for the first time since
twenty seventeen. Gates open at a quarter past five and
the first bounce is at ten past seven, And of
(08:31):
course you can catch all the action live from seven
pm right here on seven and seven mate. That's a
lot of sevens and live and free on seven plus
that's another seven plus every fighter live and freeing put
in the twenty twenty five AFL Grand Final. Guess what
that's also on seven. It's more numbers for you. If
you've bought a ticket for tonight's Powerball draw, you could
be in the running for Australia's second largest win of
(08:52):
the year. The powerball has jackpotted to eighty million dollars.
That's more than seven. The most frequently drawn numbers are
two and four, with least frequently drawn being twelve and fourteen.
That draw closes tonight at seven thirty check in Thursday's
weather being now partly clad in Brisbane and twenty six
mostly Sunday in City, in twenty four partly clad in
(09:13):
Canberra and seventeen showers in Melbourne and fifteen brother a shower,
two in Hobart and eleven a shower to and Adelaide,
and seventeen partly clardi in Perth, seventeen and sunny in
Darwin thirty two degrees
Good morning. A teenage boy will front court in Queensland
this morning after allegedly stabbing a female uber driver on
the Gold Coast. The thirty two year old woman was
found with multiple stab wounds to her head, neck and
back outside the Kumera Westfield shopping center. The woman remains
fighting for life this morning after she was rushed to
hospital in a critical condition.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The investigations so far show that there wasn't any type
of disagreement about the ride share or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
The sixteen year old has been charged with acts intended
to cause grievous bodily harm, armed robbery and deprivation of liberty.
Police have rammed up the search for gunman responsible for
a brazen daylight shooting in Cities South earlier this year.
The victims, with links to the Alamedine crime family are
refusing to cooperate with police.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It is always refrustrating when people don't co op rate
with these investigations.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Police have also charged prominent associate lawyer Sylvan Singh for
allegedly ordering a violent kidnapping. City's Harbor Bridge could soon
be the site of more protests, with an anti corruption
group applying to police to march across the landmark on
September thirteen. The affairs the unprecedented Supreme Court ruling that
allowed a ninety thousand strong pro Palestine protest in August
(01:26):
has opened the floodgates of future similar events in his
South Wales Police minister says continuing protests are leaving police
exhausted and overworked. Victorian police have called specialist units from
the army to help track down police killer Desi Freeman.
It comes as the search for the government enters its
tenth day after he fled to the Victorian Bush. We're
(01:49):
also joined by assets from the Australian Defense COOTS.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Everyone is leaning.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Into the search, police have said his wife if Mahley,
could face charges over obstructing offices from Minister. Anthony ALBERNIZI
is facing mounting questions over the attendants of former Victorian
Premier Daniel Andrews a China's military parade. The opposition and
prominent labor figures branded Dan Andrews as a traitor after
(02:17):
mingling and shaking hands with authoritarian leaders in Beijing. The
PM refusing to comment on mister Andrews's attendants in parliament,
instead pointing to the Abbott government's decision to send its
veterans affairs ministers to the same anniversary ten years ago.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he's prepared to meet his
Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelenski to discuss a deal to end
(02:41):
the war if he comes to Moscow. Like the York
corosspondent Ben Dwanni Ben, how likely is this to happen,
as Ukraine responded.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, Eddie, effectively a non starter. There is no way
this could be feasibly possible purely from a security standpoint,
let alone all of the other hurdles. Ukraine has responded.
Its foreign minus has said that Russia says or knows
that this is knowingly unacceptable, effectively an offer they know
Ukraine won't be able to meet now. It would be
extraordinarily unlikely anyway. But in addition to the offer, Vladimir
(03:14):
Putin has also delivered an ultimatum that either Ukraine does
a deal with Moscow to end the war, likely on
Russia's terms, or Russia will achieve all its objectives in
the war by force. Putin's invitation is seemingly in response
to the two week deadline Donald Trump gave him at
the Alaskan summit to agree to talks with Lenski. This
(03:35):
is effectively the shape that Putin wants them to take,
and that deadline on Friday is fast approaching. Here was
the US President.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I have no message to President, Buten he knows where
I stand, and he'll make a decision one way or
the other. Whatever his decision is, will either be happy
about it or unhappy. And if we're unhappy about it,
you'll see things happen. I'll be speaking to him over
the next few days and we're going to see.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
The backdrop to this. Of course, sadly is another Russian attack,
this time on the Ukrainian front line town of Koshniska,
that killed at least nine people, with the death tolls
still being assessed. It seems as long as these peace
talks keep getting drawn out, more people pay with their lives.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Addie certainly do, thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
A Western City family had a root awakening last night
when a car plowed through their yard, narrowly missing their door.
Emergency services were called to the scene at Saint John
Park just before ten point thirty pm to find a
white Mazda and Honda had collided causing the Mazda to
mount the curb. Both drivers, age in their twenties, return
negative breath tests and nobody was hurt. Fresh data has
(04:44):
revealed more women have been killed by someone they know
in Queensland than anywhere else in the country. Let us
report from the Australian Bureau Statistics also reveals the number
of sexual assaults has jumped again. It cements Queensland as
the crime cap bittle of the country for the second
year in a row. The state government says the numbers
(05:04):
show that so much more needs to be done. Mushroom
murderer Aaron Patterson is set to make Australian history next week,
with the Supreme Court allowing a TV camera in to
record and broadcast her sentencing for triple murder. You can
watch just As Beale deliver the penalty for the fifty
year old crimes at nine point thirty on Monday morning.
(05:25):
The historic sentencing will be live streamed across all of
seven's social media platforms, and of course will bring you
it also here on Channel seven. The debate on the
burning of our national flag is intensifying, with Liberal Senator
just Into Napajema Price calling on politicians to criminalize it.
Josh Martin has been covering the debate in Canberra for
(05:47):
US and Josh. Tensions really reached boiling point in Parliament
yesterday morning, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
They did the Liberal Senator as well as One Nation
leader Pauline Hanson, both defying the rules of Parliament, standing
up in making speeches while covering themselves in the Australian
national flag napin jibber. Price and Hansen were both told
to take the flags off as props aren't allowed in
the Senate. That's a long running rule. But one of
the messages they are trying to convey is that the
(06:14):
burning of the flag should be made illegal. We saw
the flag burnt in recent rallies over Gaza and immigration,
thrusting the issue into the spotlight. Here's some of the
drama from Parliament yesterday.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I asked for a ruling please on whether the senator
is who's wrapped in the national flag at the moment,
is controverting the standing order that prevents props.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
The burning of our national flag goes beyond free speech
and political protests. It's an abuse of liberty. It's a
rejection of the responsible citizenship it's a display of historical ignorance.
It's an act intended to side division, disunity, national hatred
and even violence.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Annie Labour's Attorney General, Michelle Roland, has also condemned the
burning of the flag, but as of yet there are
no plans to make it illegal.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Thank you, Josh. Hundreds of convicted criminals are set to
live freely in Naharu, with taxpayers footing a seven million
dollar bill per person to deport them to the Pacific nation.
The Department of Home Affairs has confirmed the arrangement could
cost Australia two point five billion dollars over thirty years.
(07:24):
Nahru will resettle up to three hundred and fifty four
former immigration detainees at an initial cost of four hundred
and eight million dollars and seventy million dollars every year thereafter.
Following the deal struck last week, there are mounting questions
this morning around how a city grandfather was able to
mistakenly take the wrong child home from a childcare center
(07:47):
in the city South. The boy's mother arrived at the
First Steps Learning Academy to find her son wasn't there.
The boy apparently looked like the grandfather's grandson he is stated,
of course about his mistake, and the educator who gave
him the wrong child has been stood down. The center
is taking measures to make sure it can't happen again,
(08:09):
with the regulator now investigating well. Footy fever has taken
hold of Adelaide as the Crow's face off against Collingwood
in tonight's qualifying final. Adelaide Oval is sold out. Over
fifty three thousand footy fans set to attend. The Crows
have returned to the finals for the first time since
twenty seventeen. Gates open at a quarter past five and
the first bounce is at ten past seven, And of
(08:31):
course you can catch all the action live from seven
pm right here on seven and seven mate. That's a
lot of sevens and live and free on seven plus
that's another seven plus every fighter live and freeing put
in the twenty twenty five AFL Grand Final. Guess what
that's also on seven. It's more numbers for you. If
you've bought a ticket for tonight's Powerball draw, you could
be in the running for Australia's second largest win of
(08:52):
the year. The powerball has jackpotted to eighty million dollars.
That's more than seven. The most frequently drawn numbers are
two and four, with least frequently drawn being twelve and fourteen.
That draw closes tonight at seven thirty check in Thursday's
weather being now partly clad in Brisbane and twenty six
mostly Sunday in City, in twenty four partly clad in
(09:13):
Canberra and seventeen showers in Melbourne and fifteen brother a shower,
two in Hobart and eleven a shower to and Adelaide,
and seventeen partly clardi in Perth, seventeen and sunny in
Darwin thirty two degrees
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd is a thought-provoking, opinionated, and topic-driven journey through the top sports stories of the day.